Tackle setup · Intermediate
8–9 weight flats fly outfit
Bonefish and permit on the ocean and bay flats; redfish and seatrout in the backcountry.
Charter a boatBring your own boatShore, bridge, kayak & wade
The outfit
- Rod
- 9 ft 8 or 9 weight fly rod
- Reel
- Large-arbor saltwater reel with a sealed drag and 200 yards of backing
- Line
- Weight-forward floating saltwater line
- Leader
- 9–12 ft tapered leader, 12–16 lb tippet (16–20 lb for permit)
- Hooks
- #2–#6 bonefish flies; #1–#2 crab patterns for permit
- Weights
- Bead-chain or lead eyes on the fly
- Practise the 40-ft cast into the wind before the trip; the fish will not wait for a third false cast.
